Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 00:08:14 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master Message-ID: <20010508000814.E42208@skriver.dk> In-Reply-To: <20010507150006.C12252@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:00:06PM -0700 References: <20010507125604P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010507163119.H3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010507144618.A12252@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010507164650.J3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010507150006.C12252@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:00:06PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > I simply think it's inconvenient for mirror operators to host bits that > > are not obtained even one-tenth of 1% of the time as the newest > > releases/packages. Not everyone has 50GB of disk space to dedicate > > to FreeBSD, and I don't see a reason to expect that. :) > > If it is truly just a disk space issue, we should investigate if we can > get subsidized disks for well-connected mirrors. > Heck, 50GB is a typical personal MP3 collection. A single cheap XX GB IDE drive won't work in a busy ftp mirror, I know ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org which have a relative expensive HW RAID0+1 SCSI disk array of 18 GB 10k rpm SCSI drives was quite busy in the days after 4.3-RELEASE ... But still, ~50 GB shouldn't be a problem, but I think we should decide on "upper limit" on disk space, so that people can plan on having that amount of disk space, and don't have to worry about running out of disk space when the next release (or snapshot or distfile update, or ...) comes on ftp-master ... /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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